英语人教版八年级下册unit 6 section A 1a--2c.docx

Unit 6 An old man tried to move the mountains.Section A (1a-2c)Teaching aims and demands:Knowledge objects:1. Vocabulary：shoot, stone, weak, god, remind,2. Structures：Conjunctions: unless, as soon as, so.that Sentences：-How does the story begin? -Once upon a time, there was a very old man. -What happened next? -As soon as the man finished talking, Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died.Ability objects:1. Know and use the target words and phrases through the courseware;2. Improve the students listening and speaking levels according to the listening training; make all the students work in class through task-based teaching and group work.Moral objects:1. Develop the students ability to be true men and educate students not to be afraid of difficulties.2. Cooperate with others and build the confidence of speaking English.Teaching key points:1. To master the words and phrases2. To use the words and phrases to tell a story Teaching difficult point:1. How to retell or talk about a storyTeaching methods:Audio-lingual Approach,Communicative Approach, Situational Approach and Task-based teaching methodTeaching aids: a board, a computer & pptsTeaching procedures:Step1 Warming up1. Greeting and listen to a song together.2. Have Ss guess the name of the story.Step2 PresentationPlay a game1. Give Ss some pictures which are covered2. Have Ss guess the names of the stories (The stories are: Pan Gu separates the sky from the earth, Change flies to the moon, Jin Wei fills the sea, Wu Song fights the tiger, Journey to the West ,Yu Gong Moves a Mountain, Hou Yi Shoots the Suns, Nu Wa Repairs the Sky)Work on 1a1. Have Ss match the story with the pictures a-d in 1a._ Journey to the West _ Yu Gong Moves a Mountain_ Hou Yi Shoots the Suns_ Nu Wa Repairs the Sky2. Check the answers Watch a video1. Show Ss a video about Yu Gong Moves a Mountain. Ss try to understand the meaning 2. Show Ss some pictures and ask some questions about the story. Help Ss know the main idea of the story in English. Questions：(1) -When did the story happen?-Once upon a time. (2) -Who was he? -Yu Gong. (3) -What were the two mountains like?-High and big. (4) -Where would they put the earth and stone? -Into the sea. (5) -What did the man say to Yu Gong? - You cant move the mountains. Step 3 Listening practiceWork on 1b1. Listen and check () the facts you hear in 1b. Which story are Anna and Wang Ming talking about?_The two mountains were very high and big. _A very old man tried to move the mountains._A man told Yu Gong that he could never do it.2. Listen once, Ss write down the answers and check in the whole classWork on 2a&2b1. T：Do you know what happened next and whats the end of the story? Lets come look at some pictures to know the rest of the story about Yu Gong .2. Predict the rest story about Yu Gong according to the pictures. Ask some questions and lead the Ss to be familiar with the story and it can help them do the listening parts.Task1 Listen and number the pictures 1-4 in order to tell the story. (Ss get the main idea of the story) 1. Play the recording and students number the pictures.2. Check the answers. Task2 Listen again and circle the words you hear.（listen to the details）1. Read the sentences to the students and ask them to read together.(1) A man saw Yu Gong and his ( children / family ) when they were working on moving the mountains.(2). He told Yu Gong he could never do it because he was old and ( poor / weak ).(3). As soon as the man finished ( talking / speaking ), Yu Gong said that his family could continue to move the mountains after he died.www-2-1-cnjy-com(4). Finally, a god was so moved by Yu Gong that he sent ( two / three ) gods to take the mountains away.(5). This story reminds us that you can never ( know / see ) whats possible unless you try to make it happen.2. Play the recording for the first time and students try to circle the words.3. Play the recording again and students finish the task.4. Check the answers one by one. move, god, unless, dig, never, weak, big, high, continue, decideTask3 Listen again and fill in the blanks. Once upon a time, there was an old man called Yu Gong. And there were two_ and _ mountains near his house. So he _ to move them. The next day, Yu Gong and his family began to move the mountains, a man told him that he could _do it because he was old and _. But Yu Gong said that his family could _ to move the mountains after he died. Yu Gong and his family kept _day after day and year after year. Finally, a god was so _ by Yu Gong that he sent two _ to take the mountains away. Give students a few minutes to finish the task, and then check the answers. Step4 Retell the story according to the sentence structures in the mind map. Step5 SummaryBy asking some questions to summarize :( 1) What can you learn in the class? (2)How to tell a story? (3)What can we learn from the story?Step6 Homework(1) You have to: Fill in the blanks about the story Yu Gong Moves a mountain and then tell it to your parents or your friends. (2) You can do: Try to tell the stories Hou Yi shoots the suns, Journey to the West and Nu Wa Repairs the sky in English to your classmates. You can use the Internet to help you.Step7 Bla